dust bowl

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1. dust bowl - Noun

2. Dust bowl - Proper noun

Meaning

a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s

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Allitt p 211, paraphrasing William Cronin's evaluation of Mathew Paul Bonnifield, Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt and Depression(1979) Influence on the arts and culture Florence Owens Thompson seen in the photo Destitute Pea Pickers in California. Source: Internet

A lack of rainfall, extremely high temperatures and inappropriate cultivation techniques produced what was known as the Dust Bowl in South Dakota and several other plains states. Source: Internet

American exodus: The dust bowl migration and Okie culture in California (Oxford University Press, 1989) * Lassieur, Allison. Source: Internet

Although drought is rare, it has occasionally caused major disruption, such as during the Dust Bowl (1931–1942). Source: Internet

But even as Dust Bowl migration, the World War II arms industry and a vast movement of Black Americans escaping Jim Crow segregation transformed the city, the newspaper remained nearly entirely white in its staff, its readership and its outlook. Source: Internet

During the Dust Bowl, the jet stream weakened and changed course traveling farther south than normal. Source: Internet

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